John Rofrano
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> Yes the message is correct because the audio in a DVD is AC3, so DVDA needs to re-encode it.
Nope. He said that he selected PCM audio for the DVD Architect project so it should not be converting to AC3. PCM is a valid format for DVD’s and is higher quality than AC3.
My guess is that it is simply taking the audio from the AVI file and transcoding it to wave with no real recompression. Had you used a separate wave file you probably would not have gotten that warning. I’m surprised the warning came up which is why I didn’t respond initially.
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> No leads on the scipting problem ??
It is trivial to display dialog boxes with a script. The question is, how does the script know when to display the text? Also, do you have programming skills to write a script? The Sony Script SDK has lots of examples to get you started.
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> I want to be able to burn in widescreen without loosing any noticable video and sound quality
Well… “noticeable” is a subjective term. DVD’s don’t do HD so what exactly do you think you are making? If you want HD then you need to burn Blu-ray or at least the Blu-ray format on physical DVD media which will still require a Blu-ray player to play it and limit you to about 20 min per disc. If you want to make a regular DVD then the quality loss will be “noticeable” because DVD has 5x less quality than HD. You could squeeze more HD on physical DVD media by using the AVCHD format which is part of the Blu-ray spec but again, the resulting disc will require a Blu-ray player.
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> Thus, Vegas is keeping track of that file and where it needs to be (in the fiel) so that it can process it during Preview.
Not really. If the track is muted it never needs to worry about it and can just skip it when processing. (i.e., the algorithm just needs to process unmuted tracks and never sees the muted ones) I’m not sure what the overhead of skipping a muted track is, or where you are going with this, but on a modern computer, I’d bet the difference is insignificant.
At any rate, the answer to your question is, No… Vegas does not provide a way to “archive” a track.
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Muted tracks are ignored. Not sure what more an archive would do but if you mute something in Vegas, it doesn’t get processed.
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If you use Pan/Crop then Vegas will crop before resizing to the final delivery output.
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> I think rendering the project in standard format rather than HD or AVCHD could be the answer. I know that I will lose some of the quality but I think that the DVD player I am using probably can not cope with anything too high powered being thrown at it!
If all you have is a DVD player then that’s your only option. You need a Blu-ray player to watch Blu-ray movies.
> Would you let me know the render settings I should use for both video and audio to produce a standard DVD?
I don’t know how else to say this: Press the Make Movie button, then choose Burn to DVD and when it’s finished rendering use the Send to DVD Architect Studio button. That’s all you need to do.
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> When in Architect 4.5 as the file was recorded in AVCHD will it burn in “Blue Ray” to the disc or will the rendering selected overwrite any other formatting?
The rendering selected is what it will use and this is determined by your project properties when using the Make Movie button. According to the Vegas Family Comparison chart on the Sony web site, DVD Architect Studio does not support the authoring of Blu-ray. You can only make a Blu-ray disc from the timeline with Movie Studio Platinum.
> Silly question as well but where are the Vegas / Rendered files saved on my PC?
When you press Make Movie it prompts for for the fully qualified filenames for the render. It will place them wherever you tell it to.
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I would start by adding a dark blue gradient generated media to the track above the footage. The darkest blue should be on top to mute the sky while a more transparent dark blue should be used on the bottom. Adjust the overall opacity of the gradient event to color the footage as needed. This should give you a good starting point.
DigiEffects has a Day for Night FX but you would need Boris RED or After Effects as a host (although Boris RED can be used within Sony Vegas).
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> …when you search for AVCHD it brings up a topic on how to import the AVCHD format. It refers to the file extensions as being *.m2ts. The files I have are *.mts. Does this matter?
No. Some cameras use the extension .m2ts and some use .mts.
> When I try and import the files (which I was given on CD) Vegas freezes. Is this because I need to bring the footage in directly from the videocamera?
No. It may just be that Movie Studio 8 doesn’t support that form of AVCHD. There are several variations of AVCHD. Did you try Movie Studio Platinum 9 with the files?
> The Help topic also says to capture the video via you Picture Motion Browser Utility supplied with your video camera? What is this?
It’s a utility that Sony ships with their camcorders. Because the memory sticks and hard drives are formatted for FAT32 they have a 2GB file size limitation. The Picture Motion Browser Utility stitches these files back together to resemble the duration that you really shot. I assume the person who gave you the CD doesn’t have any clips that large to worry about (since a CD is only 700MB)
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